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Palmer sucks The other pictures are nice. Looks like a good day.

Here's a war worth fighting again and again [img:center]http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/Pig-War-Map.jpg[/img] Pig War

All that really matter is you describe your traverse. I traversed X. We summitted a and b. We attempted to summit c but backed off. Summit ridge traverse works as a definition for a group like the Pickets, but when there is no single ridge line like on the Ptarmigan then you have to qualify your terms.

The video is worth watching. He describes an injury I know too much about. I can relate to a lot of what he talks about. Skiing was one skill that came back naturally. [video:youtube]

You can do a traverse without summitting. When I've done them I just say I traversed this area and I submitted peak x, y, and z. If you take your idea to an extreme then you can't claim a summit of Rainier till you climb every route including Willis Wall and the Liberty Cap ice cliff.

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Thermogenesis dude Actually the Emmons Glacier is a good. The Emmons involves lots of road skiing until the road to the White River Campground is open. Fuhr Finger would be another choice. This last stretch of weather could have worked for skiing, but I believe we're headed back to the typical precip cycle. Past that you're looking for a few solid days of good weather. In a lot of years May is a good month, but that's just a guess. Spend a lot of time looking at NOAA and NWAC

Up high we were skiing powder with a sun crust. The lower you got the thicker the crust got. Yeah maybe I should have said thick tree dodging. For the first bit you could link up some glades, but lower down vine maples took up a lot of space in the, "glades." Darkness didn't help either

Trip: Rock Mountain - West Face Date: 2/21/2010 Trip Report: Recently I have been going through my too-do list and knock off stuff I keep meaning to ski but then forget or blow off. Rock Mountain was on the list. I have been up to ski the south side a couple times, but never the west side. The main problem with the west side was linking up the ascent with the decent. Long ski outs along Hwy 2 are just not that inspiring. The Berdorfer description suggests starting from Smith Brook. That avoids the highway but adds miles to the trek. Jeff H and I talked about it and figured we could ski a loop starting at the east portal of the train tunnel. We figured we would go to the ridgeline and figure it out. Ascent in red descent in blue Ascent up the south facing slopes went smoothly until the ridgeline. Going off old memories, we thought we could stay on the ridgeline, but this did not look like such a good idea once we got there. In the end, we descended the ridges north side a ways to a bench and then traverse. We saw a steep chute that regained the ridge. South side of the ridge View of Rock Mountain from the ridge. Traversing took a while. We got sidetracked once when we thought we could regain the ridge early, but eventually we climbed the chute we'd been looking at. After some more travel we were on the summit Looking back at the traverse under the ridge. Glacier Peak The skiing is cool on a big wide open face that drops for a couple thousand feet. Here's the YouTube version [video:youtube] We skied to a flat section then descended and traversed till we were under a notch in Nason Ridge. After a short climb we were on the ridge crest looking down at HWY 2 as the sun was beginning to set. More skiing followed. It was more along the lines of tree dodging then nighttime tree dodging. Fortunately we had a good lay of the land, and we could hear the tunnels electric fan engines running. Eventually we were back to the road and car. Approach Notes: Climbing up from near the summer trail may be better, but if you do that either take two vehicles or only ski this when there's a good snow pack in the valley. If you ski the route make sure to check avy conditions since you'll be in avy terrain for a while.

The descent to Snow Lake is cool. I've never added in the climb and ski on Roosevelt though. I guess that's now on the to do list.

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Exactly Rock climbing at crags now is a sign you need to move out of the NW.

The AAC yearly publication on accidents is a good resource. In most cases a period of time has elapsed between the actual accident and the discussion. The one thing that time gives you is the chance to get more complete/accurate information on the event. Having reliable information helps when you discuss what you think the bad decisions, failings, or bad luck contributed to the accident. Accidents suck, and when one happens involving an activity you like it isn't surprising you want to talk about it. Trying to stick to figuring out all the events involved is the best first discussion topic. After that and a little time out moving on to speculating or analysis would be just fine and maybe help prevent future climbing misfortune.

Trip: Lichtenberg Mountain - N Side Nera Lichtenwasser Lake Date: 2/15/2010 Trip Report: A few weeks back Jeff H and I were skiing towards Jove Mountain in the Smith Brook area. Neither of us had been in the area for a while. It was cloudy that day with poor visibility. After a while we bagged our plans for Jove and skied a line on the south side of Union peak back to Smith Brook. We did get some views of the north side of Lichtenberg mountain despite the clouds that day. One feature was a descent line near the outflow of Lichtenwasser Lake. We put it on the to-do list. On the 15th we headed back to ski the line. Avy conditions were a bit sketchy on Saturday and Sunday, but things started to moderate that Monday. The snow was thick and a bit icy down low, but things started to improve with altitude. Navigation was complicated since we couldn't see the whole slope. Somehow we stayed on line and got to the ridge crest in the spot we had talked about skiing from on our previous trip. Map Jeff near the top of the ridge Things at ridge line were cloudy, but it really didn't matter. The trees blocked any spectacular videos, but I did play with my camera and make this short video of the skiing. [video:youtube] As expected we skied back to the crusty snow, but the upper slopes had some nice powder. One last bit of extreme skiing brought us back to the main Smith Brook road. Fun times! Gear Notes: Using my camera for videos is all new to me. It's kind of a fun thing to do. Approach Notes: Travel on the slope isn't very obvious. We managed to pick a good line up and down. but the ascent/descent line isn't obvious.

Dude, I'm just having a bit of fun with the statement (blank) is the answer. If snowboarding is your favored method of snow travel that's cool. If you're inclined you can do a search of my skiing related TRs

Wrong on two parts: Bindings [img:center]http://www.justgetout.net/ClientFiles/5d519366-9c6e-4bf1-88da-9a5a13184e8a/Enchantments-506-0118.JPG[/img] Answers and Questions Here are some folks that didn't actually know what the question was they got the answer to. [video:youtube]

Yes, but what is the question? Non-snowboarder

but if you do that somebody might cape his ass!!! Well I know he's been to South America recently. This video may help with ID. [video:youtube]

Go to France and ask them what they think of French Canadians and how they speak. That's some quality spray.

I keep seeing this photo of some dude climbing Brass Balls (I think) solo. I wonder who that guy could be? BTW I did a search and found some Eric Mohler dude who was the assistant engineer for Sammy Hagar back in the 80s VOA

So we've established we are in Spray. I think we can all agree on that. If we were to create a forum where posters used their real then everybody (Pope, Choda Boy, Dick Head, Raindawg) would have to use their real name. Obviously we haven't done that yet, and may never. Trying to say that bolting discussion on CC is ever, "high-brow discourse," without your opponents is hilarious. You and Dawg engage in lots of mud slinging/locker-room talk without the help of either Choda or Dick Head or anyone else. I'd advise against the arguement, Avatar1 "He started it," Avatar2 "No I didn't you started it." You could get a lot of backers if you stuck to No crack bolting No grid bolting Observe historical practices at a crag You'll loose backers if you drift off into, "no rap bolting..."

Right on, nice pictures

What was it 3 years ago and Sky looked down on Canadian huts. Now they're the best.